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To make a French-Barley Pudding: — Take a quart of cream, and put to it six eggs well beaten, but three of the whites; then season it with sugar, nutmeg, a little salt, orange-flower-water, and a pound of melted butter; then put to it six handfuls of French-barley that has been boiled tender in milk: butter a dish, and put it in, and bake it.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

You may toast some thin slices of white bread, and dip them in sack or orange-flower-water, and pour your cream over them.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

Marya Dmitrievna was sitting alone in her boudoir in an easy-chair, sniffing eau de cologne; a glass of orange-flower-water was standing on a little table near her.

A House of Gentlefolk 2003

MARYA DMITRIEVNA was sitting alone in her boudoir in any easy-chair, sniffing eau de cologne; a glass of orange-flower-water was standing on a little table near her.

Chapter XLIII 1917

Marya Dmitrievna was sitting alone in her boudoir in an easy-chair, sniffing eau de cologne; a glass of orange-flower-water was standing on

A House of Gentlefolk Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

Six clean packs of cards, a quart of orange-flower-water, a pair of

Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer Richard Steele 1700

Those sweet artificers did every morning furnish the ladies 'chambers with the spirit of roses, orange-flower-water, and angelica; and to each of them gave a little precious casket vapouring forth the most odoriferous exhalations of the choicest aromatical scents.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

To make Almond Cheesecakes: — Take a good handful or more of almonds, blanch them in warm water, and throw them in cold; pound them fine, and in the pounding put a little sack or orange-flower-water to keep them from oiling; then put to your almonds the yolks of two hard eggs, and beat them together: beat the yolks of six eggs, the whites of three, and mix with your almonds, and half a pound of butter melted, and sugar to your taste; mix all well together, and use it as other cheesecake stuff.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

To candy Orange-Flowers: — Take half a pound of double-refin’d sugar finely beaten, wet it with orange-flower-water, then boil it candy-high, then put in a handful of orange-flowers, keeping it stirring, but let it not boil, and when the sugar candies about them, take it off the fire, drop it on

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

To make March-pane: — Take a pound of Jordan almonds, blanch and beat them in a marble mortar very fine; then put to them three-quarters of a pound of double-refin’d sugar, and beat with them a few drops of orange-flower-water; beat all together till ’tis a very good paste, then roll it into what shape you please; dust a little fine sugar under it as you roll it to keep it from sticking.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006